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Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.

Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.

There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers and millions of little digital bursts transferring billions of dollars all over the globe in the blink of an eye.

Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.